(c) Childrearing (such as child health and protection, childcare, the promotion of responsible parenting and the provision of foster care);

First, families are again to be given the important position they ought to have in the childrearing.

Moreover, child brides are more likely to drop out ofschool to concentrate on domestic chores and childrearing.

In 2001, the content of the Maternal and Child Health Handbook was modified to newly include a clause that identifies the importance of the father's participation in childrearing, and a clause that enhances the policy for maternal leave and other pregnancy and childrearing related support measures that will allow working parents to manage both their profession and childrearing.

The State party should also conduct awareness raising and public education campaigns against corporal punishment and promote non-violent, participatory methods of childrearing and education.

(20) The Committee notes that corporal punishment of children is not explicitly prohibited in all settings and that it is a common and accepted means of childrearing (art.

(c) Promote non-violent, positive, participatory methods of childrearing and education and knowledge among children of their right to protection from all forms of corporal punishment; and

But this is still a relief from childrearing, offering mothers time to do other things for themselves, if not for income-generation.

Added to this are the years involved in childrearing, a result of a sexual division of labor at home that leaves childcare to women.

The State party should also conduct awareness-raising and public education campaigns against corporal punishment and promote non-violent, participatory methods of childrearing and education.